Chukar partridge

(Alectoris chukar)

Range: Eurasia; from the Balkans to China.

Subspecies

• A. c. chukar: Eastern Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India, and Nepal

• A. c. cypriotes: Thrace, parts of Turkey, northern Syria, as well as Cyprus and the Greek Islands, including the Dodecanese and Crete

• A. c. dzungarica: Northwestern Mongolia to the Altai range and eastern Tibetan Plateau

• A. c. falki: North-central Afghanistan to the Pamir Mountains and Xinjiang

• A. c. kleini: Northern Greece through Bulgaria, into northern Turkey to the Caucasus

• A. c. koroviakovi: Eastern Iran to parts of Pakistan

• A. c. kurdestanica: Parts of the Caucasus to Iran

• A. c. pallescens: Northeastern Afghanistan to Ladakh and western Tibet

• A. c. pallida: Northwestern China

• A. c. potanini: Western Mongolia

• A. c. pubescens: Inner Mongolia to northwestern Sichuan and eastern Qinghai

• A. c. sinaica: Northern Syria to the Sinai Peninsula

• A. c. subpallida: Kyzylkum and Karakum deserts in Central Asia

•  A. c. werae: Eastern Iraq to southwestern Iran

• A. c. 'asoica': Northeastern Iraq